Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!usc!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!zardoz!tgate!ka3ovk!drilex!axiom!adelie!ora!tim From: tim@ora.UUCP (Tim O'Reilly) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Frequently asked questions in these groups deserve a monthly posting Message-ID: <1572@ora.UUCP> Date: 18 Jun 89 16:35:13 GMT References: <21089@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <810060@hpsemc.HP.COM> Organization: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Newton, MA Lines: 37 In article , tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: > This document (Frequently Asked Questions About UNIX), if I don't miss my > guess, could eventually become a *really* handy guide - and may grow to a > compendium of considerable size. Is there a possibility that it could be > set up with, say, Nutshell, to have permission to publish it from time to > time - at a profit for editing, indexing, and distribution (*not* creation), > of the copy? If it were started off with that intent, and a willing publisher > were to step forward, I'd sure rather have a handy desk-reference than a bunch > of printed out 8 1/2 x 11 computer sheets. O'Reilly & Associates would be glad to publish such a book, and to pay a fee for whatever pieces were included, assuming that there is interest in such a book. (We have often thought that a printed "reader's digest" of the main currents on the net would be a fun book to do. However, let me point out that editing and producing such a book could be far more work than "creating" the contents. There is an awful lot of material to sift through! Please let me know if you think this is a good idea and what you think might be in such a book. Thanks. P.S. The company name is O'Reilly & Associates, not Nutshell. In addition to publishing Nutshell Handbooks, we publish a separate series of books on the X Window System, and provide custom writing and production services creating documentation for various vendors. Calling us Nutshell is like calling AT&T UNIX :-). -- Tim O'Reilly (617) 354-5800 or (800) 338-NUTS O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Publishers of Nutshell Handbooks 90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 UUCP: uunet!ora!tim ARPA: tim@ora.uu.net